Sunday, June 27, 2010

At one time, I had a friend of mine designing a website for me. But, I ran out of money to do that. I had to take it on myself. Being marginally literate in html, but very stupid with CSS, the learning curve is not so smooth. I had heard many developers talk about how hard that Internet Explorer sucked. I really never had too many problems with IE, UNTIL I tried designing for it.

Here is the screengrab from Chrome. Perfect.

Here is the screengrab for Firefox. Perfect.

Here is the screengrab from Internet Explorer 7. Screwed.

Internet Explorer even removed the gif from the header. WTF? I'll get there, but seriously, who the Hell uses IE? Oh yeah, only 38.7% of the folks that visit this little blarx. Dammit.

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Wait until you find out how many people still use IE 6, particularly in the business world! I was shocked to discover that was the case for corporate visitors (not our company, but our clients) to our Websites at work.

If you promote yourself to corporations, you might want to keep that in mind.

That's one of the most frustrating things I run into: designing for IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome.

The hardest part, for me anyway, is finding a way to run IE6 and a later version of IE at the same time (IE8's compatibility view takes care of IE7, of course). I've found some emulators, but most of those don't allow JavaScript interaction, so I use a computer (or virtual machine) that runs IE6 for that.

When we designed the website for our restaurant, I used an html editor that previewed the work in IE. All was fine. But then we used Firefox to preview our design for the trailer park website and noticed that IE really distorted it. We had to go back and redesign it previewing it in IE because that's what most people will use to view it. But Firefox does not distort stuff designed for IE.